developing stories. joining me now cnn analyst david drucker and cnn political commentator sally cone. david, let start with you. can th the president initially saying he would take the blame and now he's blaming the democrats. can this work? >> the president is the one who triggered it. it n it's not going to be possible for him to shove this off on democrats. democrats have been saying you guys figure it out. moat voters don't look at that, they look at who's in control. i do think down the line, that after the shutdown is entrenched for a couple of weeks and democrats are in control of the house, the president is going to be in a better position to say i